Poirot, he's a politician. Politics is what he does. Complaining that a politician does politics is like complaining that a lawyer tells lies.

I thought the piece on the potential for asylum seekers to prosper in New Guinea and also benefit New Guinea was a good one. It showed that there is more than one way to look at the problem.

With all due respect, I think you're looking at it too narrowly. What makes you think he is insincere in expressing a concern about deaths? What did you want him to do/say? Must he spell every decision out in full? How much time do you have to devote to listening and how much time do you want the PM to spend on that instead of actually forming policy and making decisions?

Yeah, Anti, you're right.

I'm boggled on this one. Rudd has turned himself inside out and I'm complaining that his label now showing.

Apparently because someone is a pollie, I'm stupid to try and fathom some sort of principle behind his actions, and not just plain opportunistic policy formation.

I'm naive.

Back to my book (I found a copy of R.L. Stevenson's "Travels with a Donkey".....and it' far more inspiring than what's being served up plolitically in Oz right now)

Come on Anti, even you don't believe that rubbish. You are rationalizing because you want to vote labor.

I know it must be hard for someone committed to a philosophy to admit it is a total failure, but sometimes you have to. Admit to yourself he is the worst possible choice for Oz, & come back from the dark side.

The man is a horrible desperate megalomaniac, probably one of the worst people ever raised in Oz.

He spent millions of our money grandstanding on global warming. Remember he took half the bureaucrats with him to grandstand at Copenhagen, now it is nothing. All that was nothing but his application for the UN top job. He is just a bad joke, all be it, a bloody expensive one for Oz taxpayers.

Poirot, he's a politician. Politics is what he does.
Antisceptic,
Rudd is so abysmally incompetent that he can't even manage to be a bad politician let alone a decent one.
I think Rudd is a good reason to invent a new word that describes the likes of him.

Having said that, you'd be battling to find a more vacuous less, inspiring Prime Ministerial candidate than Tony Abbott.

During tonight's debate, it seems he was incapable of answering a question without recourse to a slogan.

Pathetic!

I switched channels as soon as the PM started his waffle so I don't really know how Abbott went.